My terrible fight with a fucking asshole old man

This happened at a broken down "flea market" on the outskirts of town here in upstate NY. I went there to buy a vanload of books because I deal those for a living. The place is more like a dump than a business and hardly anyobdy ever goes there. Seriously, I was looking around inside this place- and I went too far into the shadowy back area,s and I was climbing over piles of lumber and rugs to get to the hidden corners, and some guy came back to tell me not to go farther because it was dangerous. The junk is stacked 7 layers deep and there's thousands of books on really tall narrow shelves and other places they are just piled haphazardly. Some of the shelves have collapsed so you have to kind of feel your way through a maze of aisles to find the ones that aren't full of rubble. It's a lot of garbage, but someone who knows books well can find some out of print books worth a few bucks amongst the shit. I was going to pick them up for $15 per banana box.

So the place was freezing cold, and after I looked around for a few minutes i went outside to get hat & gloves from my van. When I got outside there was some old man there and he told me "move that piece of shit right now". Apparently I was parked in a space reserved for the business next store. Well, I was a little pissed at the guy for being such a dick and I said "there's no sign there." There was no marking at all. Well the guy was like "move it or I'm going to block you and tow it" And that really pissed me off and I said "put up a fucking sign and say please." The guy called a 2nd old man over and he's like "don't argue, move your shit" and I say "I'm not arguing, I'm moving it, but I'm just here to do business in there and you need to put up a sign and say please instead of being a fucking asshole." So that was that and I moved it.

Well I guess they thought I left, but after I moved it I went back to the front door, and the 2nd old man was spreading salt on the ice. He saw me going in and followed me and he's like "get out now." I said "I'm doing business in there, do you work here" and he says "I own this building"! Not the guy I was going to buy from, but probably his landlord. So I turned to leave but then the guy went to grab my coat. I said "hands off" 2 or 3 times but the guy started shoving so I pulled out a can of pepper spray. The guy backed off but then he went to swing his bag of rock salt at my head so I sprayed him in the face. Well that knocked him back a few steps but then he lunged at me. This was a big fat guy, probably used to be in the army or something, a lot bigger than me but not fit. I'm skinny but pretty fit. So, this big fuck grabbed me and we went down on the ice in the doorway, I'm soaking his face with pepper spray and we wrestled for a few minutes. He snatched my glasses and crushed them into a little pile of bent up wire, then I did the same to his, and then he just started wheezing and couldn't move or anything. I dug my thumbs in his eyes and told him to let go and finally he did, I got up pocketed both glasses and took off before any of his friends could show up. He just lay there in a pile wheezing with red pepper sauce dripping down his head. It was a bitch to drive without glasses, but I got to a friend's close by and borrowed some.

So we had a verbal altercation, then I got assaulted, and I fought back. Didn't hit the guy though, not once. The guy got pepper sprayed and had his glasses broken, mine too, I got my knees banged & bruised pretty bad on the ice but otherwise OK. It was his & his friends place & both their word against mine. So I figure, I probably deserve to get charges against the fucker, but not a good idea to pursue it farther- so we're even.

All day I'm just thinking what the fuck is with these people. This fucking hick town is a culture of inbred assholism- Deliverance isn't just a movie. Don't go poking around the backwoods in upstate NY!